THE CRAWLING CHAOS
by thewriter133
I look before me. The massive monolith glows faintly. I smile. Six beings appeared before me. One was bipedal the rest were quadrupeds. One of the quadrupeds was distinctly insectoid.
They look around confused. The biped looks in my direction and screams. She flees leaving only five behind. I sigh and snap my fingers. A light blue mare with unkempt look appeared. She barks enthusiastically then licks the chaos borne's face.
I step out of my concealing shadows revealing my true form. That of a large muscular centaur. My brothers and sisters also step out. We are the last guardians of the Blackmane secret. Our group was wiped out in secret. Curse that Celestia. Sorry almost lost my serenity there.
Where was I...oh yes the group of Hunny strippers before me. That is what my brother called them. How did it devolve to us relying on strippers. I look to my right at a pink mare with a propeller beanie on her head. I snort in anxiety. A chaos borne in our temple staring at the smooze. But this would have to be done to assist in the defense of Canterlot.
How did it come to us?
It started back in the spring. I had just learned about my daughter, Ditzy Doo. My daughter with the lady of dreams and shadows. I had also learned about the return of Sulfur the Dreaded. He had been imprisoned beneath the mountain that held Canterlot. This was ages ago when Celestia and Luna had just been born.
The cult that would become known as the Blackmane mysteries was just a priest and his apprentice. They had discovered draconic writings that the apprentice decided to read out loud. This was the first known summoning. Young Tirek was a fool. He summoned an eldritch demon known as Sulfur.
Sulfur killed Tirek. The elder mage fled the mountains. For only nine gems could reseal the demon. It was at this time the prince of the Crystal Empire, Sombra, began his search into the shadows. What he found there were the three gems of chaos, Distrust, Lies, & Spite. He was a powerful unicorn thus the first Blackmane decided to train him.
Meanwhile, the young princes Luna was searching for the six elements. However, young Celestia under mysterious circumstances (1) found them first. She shared them with Luna and together they were able to repel the Sulfuric army. Father Blackmane had made incredible progress with Sombra and introduced the boy to the two princess’. He also told them how to defeat Sulfur.
Together the three of them imprisoned Sulfur in stone, but at a price. Their allies the Draconequi were destroyed causing one to become absolutely mad. Their mother and father were also slain in combat with the Sulfuric forces. And Sombra became hungry for more power. It was at this time Tirek was brought back to life by evil energies. He would wait to regain his power. Discord stole the three gems of of chaos while Sombra slept. He then stole away into the far east where he too would gather power. Sombra soon left for the Crystal empire where his dealings with darkness brought about nothing but sorrow. Father Blackmane would then return to his temple and gather his followers.
Celestia and Luna were made heroes of Equestria. They brought about an age of unprecedented growth. However that was when Discord struck having turned the flutter ponies into changelings he decided to create more havoc in the Everfree forest. He created timberwolves, chimera, and the dreaded parasprite. We were taught that this is when our order became hunted. For once Discord was defeated they fought back the shadow ponies of the Crystal Empire.When they entered the empire they found Sombra. He tried to defeat them using what Father Blackmane taught him. He was destroyed but in his death rattles he became a powerful Lich pony. He froze him selfe in crystal and the Empire was hurled thousands of years into the future. This left the book of Blackmane in the hooves of Luna. Luna began to study the writings and her darker ponysona became more known. After she tried to defeat Celestia for the first time, and was banished to the moon, we were hunted down and exterminated. So our quote darkness could never corrupt another unquote.
Yet here we are. I refounded the order with my two brothers after Luna returned for a year and waged war against Celestia again. Once we took the oath we were changed. That is the curse of the Blackmanes we become something entirely different. My elder brother became a Satyr, I became a Centaur like Tirek), my little brother became a cocatrice, dont ask me how a horse becomes a bird I’d rather forget that horrible experience. Also among those that took the oath were an Each-uisge or water horse, then we also have some changelings, breezies, a Chimera named Manny Roar, a Minotaur, a dear, a zebra, and a black flame phoenix. See only the priests get to take the oath which is why my brothers and I were changed and no one else was.
Now I stand trying to calm my nerves as the chaos borne touches the monolith. We watch as the smooze shifts and spits out a gem that changes into a bracelet. The bracelet bonds to her causing her to cry out. I wince. My sister comforts me she was in the form of a breezie. She usually lived in my mane which is why I am always unkempt looking. The others step forward and get their artifacts as well.
As they recover I speak to them “Today you will be baptized through fire. Fear nothing for those trinkets will protect you. I will lead you in war against Sulfur and his army. My brothers and sisters will back you up. Please stand on the glyphs in front of you.”
The Blackmane forces stand on their glyphs as I turn to my little brother who had sided with Chrysalis and the wondermane forces. I nod to him and he steps forward.
He speaks “I am General Stonewall. We will split into three forces to flank the army of Sulfur. Force one will be led by commander Manny Roar he will take with him the changeling forces and the two elements of Lies. The Zebra King, Mumburo, will take with him the two elements of Spite and the rest of the forces. You will advance from the remains of the castle and sneak up behind Sulfur. Manny Roar will sneak from the west while Master Blackmane and his apprentices will charge head on along with the two elements of distrust. My the shadows protect you and the light be your sword. May Blackmane lend us his Strength and give us our fervor. Bwauk!”
The forces all released their amulets at the same time after the prayer and they were teleported. I appeared in the middle of the Sulfuric army and facehoofed. I whipped off my eyepatch and began clearing a way for my apprentices and the two Chaos or Distrust elements. Poor Gilda had the bad luck of teleporting right on top of twenty sulferlings her weight crushed them but also left her with some nasty burns. I immediately placed an aura of healing around her followed by an aura of protection and strength. I just hope Brother Axel Foal is having a better time than I. I looked up to see Luna’s Airship firing at the sulferlings in the air. I saw Lightning Dust shoot past the airship destroying numerous Sulferlings in her wake.
I hear in my right ear “give them the signal brother!”
I fired a red spark into Sulfur as green purple and pink energy struck him causing him to roar. He swung at something and I saw Princess Celestia get her wing ripped off. That was when a rainbow struck Sulfur he petrified immediately and I had to shield my eye as Celestia went full fury on the stone. When it was all over she lay there breathing heavily. She was surrounded by the angry faces of the harmony bearers. The Airship landed and Luna rushed out.
I heard Twilight Sparkle say “how could you hire somepony to kill us. I thought we were your friends?”
Celestia sighed weakly saying “I deserve your hatred my beloved student. I...I...failed...you..”
Her head slumped to the ground and she went limp. Twilight cradled her mentor in her forelegs sobbing. I stepped forward and spoke “Thayme sunheal nemdoyur seulchild. yamyou epselwon vealetios.” (2)
As I spoke these words her body glowed with sunlight and she vanished. Luna looked down and then jumped as her mark changed into the sun and moon. I smiled and patted her on the shoulder. She nuzzled me and collapsed on her rear.
(1) Celestia stole Luna’s research and found the elements of harmony herself. Failing to bind them to her will she shared them with her sister.
(2) “May the sun heal and mend your soul, child. May you rest for now. Leave it to us.”
Author's Note
No notes here. Sorry. Criticisms welcome flames welcome, lets find out how many hate this. Any concerns you may pass along to me.
Stonegaze Cluckson stood outside the strip club called Hunny. He had just witnessed the element of kindness kill her friend the element of loyalty. And then she had run off to attack the element of truth. He was eyeing the back door of the establishment. He heard a ruckus inside and then many ponies fled through the back door nearly trampling him. He saw his brother Axel Foal being a hero, as usual.
He glowered and waited finally he snorted and waddled into the building, that had somehow caught fire, he saw the six that Blackmane asked him to find. He took off his glasses and transformed into a dragon. He scooped the seven leaving behind a seafoam green mare with a lyre for a cutie mark who proceeded to flee out the door.
He flew to the Monastery Blackmane. When he arrived he set them down and flew above them landing on the roof entrance. He replaced his sunglasses and became a cocatrice again. He appeared in the room with the smooze as the six walked in and then he heard the biped scream and flee the building. He looked to his brother and saw the older being lost in thought he rolled his eyes.
He spoke “Screwball please advance towards the monolith. If the Smooze finds you worthy you will receive a chaos gem. Now touch the Smooze.”
Screwball did and the Smooze shifted. One of it’s many mouths spat out a black and pink gem. This was the gem for Anarchy.
He spoke again “Now step forward Golden Grape and touch the Smooze.”
The yellow stallion with blue hair and grapes on his flank did as he was told. The Smooze moved to another mouth and spit out a gem that was black and yellow. This was the element of Pandemonium. The Changeling known as Bon Bon stepped forward next and received a black and green gem. This was the element of Topsy Turvy.
A red maned mare with a rose on her flank stepped forward and received a black and red gem. This was the element of Entropy. The mare that barked like a dog licked the smooze and it wavered. It began vibrating and humming until the monolith exploded leaving behind a blue purple and black gem. However, the smooze had been evaporated and destroyed.
After his speech Stonegaze Cluckson teleported everyling to the battle against Sulfur. He witnessed Gilda fall on top of some of the sulfur demons and rolled his eyes at the klutz. He waddled toward the ruins of the castle. Canterlot had been almost destroyed. Who knows how many had died in the explosion.
He saw a purple baby dragon trapped under some rubble and saw a pink mare, with a buttercup yellow mane and a cutie mark of three moths, helping him. She yelped as some explosions happened. She quickly shielded the drake from some falling rubble. He whispered a spell that would protect her and continued waddling off. He turned to see the mare glow and a yellow jet of light shot from her and strike Sulfur. He shrugged his wings and hopped off.
